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Australian Honored with Alumni Service Award
Alum continues in a Life of Service
by Hope Dahl
Youth Encounter's Alumni Advisory Board is pleased to
announce Lyn (Thiel) Benger as the recipient of the 2002 Alumni Service
Award. This award was announced at the 2002
Team Commissioning Service held on September 13, 2002, and will be awarded to
her by the New Vision team as they travel in Australia this spring.
Lyn (Thiel) Benger received both her primary teaching degree
and Diploma of Lutheran Education in her homeland of Australia. She spent about seven years teaching in
Lutheran schools in Australia, and was then called to serve on Youth Encounter's
Covenant team for the 1987-1988 team year.
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Warmth in Winter
News from the Events Division
by Ted Rossing
Tis the season! Events season, that is! It’s hard to believe Youth Encounter has
already hosted 29 events through the February 14-16, 2003 weekend. The season is already half over! It’s amazing how quickly time passes.
As the season began last
November, I was excited. Maybe you,
too, were excited. I was anxious to
experience the new use of video clips, PowerPoint and other interactive
elements at the events. Mostly, I was
excited to share Christ with youth and watch God minister to them in powerful
ways. However, at my second event I
felt like I was cruising on auto pilot.
I just didn’t have that enthusiastic drive I’d had at every event I’d
hosted in the past. Was it because the
holidays had just come and gone?
Perhaps.
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Greetings from Denmark
Scott Schaffer of Watermark Shares His Experience...So Far!
by Scott Schaffer
Inspiration often comes to
me in peculiar ways. February 11 th
was no exception. Watermark had
traveled via ferry to the island of Børnholm because the rest of Denmark was on
winter holiday and we would’ve been hard pressed to find any programs or
concerts to play.
Jeni and I were wandering
the streets of Aakirkeby in search of peanut butter when I saw it. As I exited the grocery store and rounded
the corner my eyes fell on it. Few times
in my life have I encountered a sight as magnificent as what I saw that
February day...
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On the Road with CAPTIVE FREE WEST LAKES!
Check Out Their Online Journal!
by Captive Free West Lakes
“We traveled to Green Bay,
Wisconsin for a youth event for about fifty kids. It was great! Most of the
kids were from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, so some of the kids that we had
seen at our programs back in October were at this event also! What a blessing
to see familiar faces and be able to hang out with them again. We had fun going
to workshops, leading Worship, doing a couple of programs, and simply being in
a hotel with fifty kids! I think my favorite part, though, was being adopted by
the youth from Wakefield, Michigan.
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A Day in the Life of CAPTIVE FREE SOUTH CENTRAL
Check out Their Online Journal!
by Captive Free South Central
“Today we left Chariton,
Iowa after being there almost two full days. While we were in Chariton we met a
little girl named Emma. She was a host sister for some of my teammates, but she
was a huge blessing to all of us. When we arrived on Tuesday we were able to
have dinner with the youth, and Emma was there. At first when we met Emma she
was a little shy, but as we spent more time there her smile came out, along
with the giggles, and they became infectious.
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New Hyms CD Released!
News from the Sales Division
by Jeff Rowden
Has this ever happened to you? You get home from one
of Youth Encounter’s junior high (Quakes) or senior high (Congresses) event
weekends and realize you forgot to buy that t-shirt you saw and fell in love
with at the sale’s table. Or maybe you saw one of our Captive Free bands
or an international team at your church and really wanted to buy a CD, but
didn’t bring any money with you. In the past this might have been a
problem, but no longer!! We’ve just opened the newest version of our web
store with the products you find at our events or team programs. So if you
forgot to buy something, didn’t have money at the time, or just have a deep
craving to own something made by Youth Encounter, stop by our web store ( http://www.inaqueststores.com/youthencounter) and buy something! You can also get
to our web store by going to our homepage www.youthencounter.org and clicking the store link.
We’ve just released a new Hymns CD for your listening
pleasure. This is a compilation of favorite hymns done in various styles.
So if you want to hear “Comfort, Comfort Now My People” with an African flavor,
an acoustic thrash version of “Holy, Holy, Holy” or a funk/techno
interpretation “Jesus Christ is Risen Today”, pick one up today!
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Spoke Folk 2003...Are You Ready?
Meet the New Spoke Folk Director!
by Eric Arundel
Hello all! Welcome to Spoke Folk 2003! Spoke Folk is a biking and musical ministry
tour made up of high school and college-aged youth, as well as adult counselors
from many different states. During a 12 day tour, Spoke Folk bikes from place
to place to share a Christ-centered music program that includes contemporary
Christian music, puppets, skits, and personal sharings.
Let me introduce
myself. My name is Eric Arundel and I’m
the new Spoke Folk director as of January 2 nd.
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YOUTH CREATE 2003!
Cathy Pino Dishes on YE's Newest Summer Program
by Cathy Pino
Plans for Youth Create are well under way once again as we
look ahead to this summer's programs. What is Youth Create, you
ask? It's a new summer program in which high schoolers
join their peers and artists-in-residence to hone their skills as worship
leaders and as artists.*
Youth Create got off to a great start in July of 2001 when
artists such as Lost And Found, Agape, Crosseyed, Rachel Kurtz, Kjel Alkire,
Scott Stivers and Peder Eide and young people from all over the country
convened in Minneapolis for a week of workshops. Topics included songwriting,
liturgy, and worship leading as well as roundtable discussions on issues
such as "The Role of Youth in the Church" and "Sacred and
Secular Music."
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It's HappyFunTime!
Get the Scoop on Their New Video Premiere!
by HappyFunTime
Last
Tuesday evening I sat waiting, sipping a tall mocha latte with extra foam. I
was scheduled to meet Minneapolis’ own improv comedy group, HappyFunTime. But
they were fashionably late. I was
dabbing my tongue with a piece of ice to cool down the burn I had given myself
when I realized that I was a fictitious character; a figment of the minds of
the members of HappyFunTime. This was
disappointing, naturally, but I was still determined to find out about this
“HappyFunTime Video Premiere.”
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Help A FINK Artist
News from our Friends at Faith Inkubators
by Rich Melheim
 Some people give up things for Lent. I'm
wondering if you might consider giving up seven minutes of your time and
a $.37 stamp to help FINK do something absolutely wonderful.
Some of you have
seen the marvelous art in our Total Family Advent and Lent PowerPoint
presentations. A few of you have even jumped over to visit the artist, Dr.
He Qi , at his online gallery at www.heqiarts.com.
I am wondering if
all of you would consider assisting us in arranging for Dr. He Qi and his
family to immigrate to America?
Here's the scoop…
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